Western Europe, Eastern Europe and world development, 13th-18th centuries : collection of essays of Marian Małowist /

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Main Authors: Małowist, Marian (Author)
Group Author: Batou, Jean (Editor); Szlajfer, Henryk (Editor)
Published: Brill,
Publisher Address: Leiden :
Publication Dates: 2010.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Studies in critical social sciences, volume 16
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Carrier Form: ix, 435 pages : forms ; 25 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [417]-419) and index.
ISBN: 9789004179172 (hardback) :
9004179178 (hardback)
Index Number: HC240
CLC: F150.9
Call Number: F150.9/M296
Contents: Preface: "Marian Małowist : an appreciation" / Immanuel Wallerstein -- Introduction: "I chased after Polish grain all over the world" / Jean Batou and Henryk Szlajfer -- Commercial capitalism and agriculture -- Merchant credit and the putting-out system : rural production during the Middle Ages -- Some remarks on the role of merchant capital in Eastern Europe in the late Middle Ages -- Kaffa : the Genoese colony in Crimea and the Eastern question (1453-1475) -- Levantine trade with Eastern Europe in the 16th Century : some problems -- Poland, Russia and Western trade in the 15th and 16th centuries -- The problem of the inequality of economic development in Europe in the later Middle Ages -- Problems of the growth of the national economy of Central-Eastern Europe in the late Middle Ages -- East and West Europe in the 13th-16th centuries : confrontation of social and economic structures -- Economic and political divisions in medieval and early modern Europe -- Eastern Europe and the countries of the Iberian Peninsula : parallels and contrasts -- The social and economic stability of the Western Sudan in the Middle Ages -- The Western Sudan in the Middle Ages : underdevelopment in the empires of the Western Sudan Hopkins-Małowist debate -- Social and economic life in Timur's empire -- New Saray, capital of the Golden Horde -- The foundations of European expansion in Africa in the 16th century : Europe, Maghreb and Western Sudan -- Portuguese expansion in Africa and European economy at the turn of the 15th century -- Gulf of Guinea countries in the 15th and early 16th century.